AFC West Roundup: Post-Season and Pre Free Agency
By Justin Smith
Los Angeles Chargers
I typed San Diego — I really did. Then I remembered that awful logo that inspired this brilliant tweet:
*checks mentions*
— Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) January 12, 2017
*squints*
*clears throat*
for the record, us & the @dodgers are just friends https://t.co/jBoJhZlYVD
So of course, they changed it again. For the third time in two days.
Hey, cut them some slack. The Chargers lost their head coach. They lost their defensive coordinator. They lost their hometown. It’s been a tough month for the Chargers. Then, they decided on that logo. A cry for help, perhaps.
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Anyway, other than the move to Los Angeles and hiring Anthony Lynn as head coach and Gus Bradley as DC, not much is happening with the Chargers. Their main offseason priority is to get their players healthy.
Lynn was a brilliant run-game tactician in Buffalo and has Melvin Gordon to work with now. Bradley never quite got the Jaguars defense where it should’ve been, until the second half of 2016. By then it was too late and he was out the door.
Bradley has been successful as a D-coordinator in the past with the Seahawks after a rocky start, and he has some real talent in San Diego to work with. Casey Heyward is a top-5 corner. Melvin Ingram is a solid all-around linebacker with great pass rush skills. Rookie Jatavious Brown was a revelation at MLB, and fellow rookie Joey Bosa was nearly unstoppable when healthy.